Dr Niall Doran is Director of the Bookend Trust.
A zoologist and film-maker, Niall founded the Bookend Trust with international best-selling author Bryce Courtenay in 2008. He has a strong background in threatened species and environmental management, gained through extensive work in both government and the private sector. He was the 2012 Australian Geographic Conservationist of the Year, the 2012 inaugural awardee of the Breath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film Festival Award for Innovation in Filmmaking, a 2016 Screen Producers Australia ‘Ones to Watch’ Awardee, and a 2017 Churchill Fellow — which led to him working with the BBC on the production of Doctor Who. He is the creator, producer and co-director of Sixteen Legs, featuring Neil Gaiman, Stephen Fry, Kate Miller-Heidke, Tara Moss, Adam Hills, Mark Gatiss, and the inhabitants of Australia’s deepest caves. The film, exhibition and books have won multiple international accolades, and are a key outreach and fundraising initiative for the Bookend program.
Bookend is a not-for-profit education initiative that seeks to inspire students and their communities with positive environmental engagement that helps make the world a better place.
It is based in Tasmania.
https://bookendtrust.au/
